If I boot "pfix=nox,ram" I can run xorgwizard and take the vesa option to get to desktop. But, other desktop navigation issues arise.

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...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
# glxgears
3092 frames in 5.0 seconds = 618.388 FPS
3326 frames in 5.0 seconds = 665.160 FPS
3467 frames in 5.0 seconds = 693.200 FPS
#
It's working well enough to run google-earth.
I've just begun testing so that's it so far.

That is what alpha is about. The only intel I tested was my Brookdale and it booted to a 'vesa' desktop at correct res. I do have my eee to test and I will inherit my son's HP lappy on Monday (845G) as we got him a new HP for his birthday, I don't think Puppy will get near that for awhile! It has radeon graphics anyway.

So far, my hypothesis on all this video trouble is that KMS is the cause. There is a "modesetting" xorg driver which I left out of 533 and also left out of this build but it seems that it is necessary for Intels. Also, for now, turning off KMS should produce a 'vesa' desktop. There is also some critical bugs in xorgwizard, one where it is possible that all drivers in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers get moved to /usr/lib/x/drivers-backup!!! Not good at all.

KMS is also likely causing issues with radeon and nouveau. I haven't had any nouveau issues yet but it seems it may need to be turned on for radeon/ATI (AMD) cards so that the ati or radeon or r128 driver gets used. Else 'vesa' gets used unless your card doesn't support KMS (older radeons should work fine, mine does).

Also, all this KMS stuff seems to depend on mesa being present as part of the build, not really surprising seeing that Slackware (and most other distros) ship with mesa out of the box. The only other way around I can see would be to recompile all xorg drivers without mesa support, which would be a mistake in my view.

I'm a bit busy at the moment, but maybe in the next week or so I can get to the bottom of all this nonsense and release a decent alpha.

Those who want to persist with Intel testing, try "pfix=ram i915-modeset=0" either at the "puppy" (boot prompt from cd) or on the grub/grub4dos kernel line.

Nvidia and radeon users can try "nouveau-modeset=0" or "radeon-modeset=1" respectively, or if you already have a usable desktop with an ati/amd card with 'vesa' driver you can edit /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf and change the 0 to 1.

Also, search for xf86-video-modesetting and install it (slackware repo) if you have modesetting set at 1 (..and mesa-8.0.4 too)

FOOTNOTE: none of the above applies if you use a proprietary video driver.

Remember this is testing and a few save files may get burned!

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On an unrelated note, gparted fails to work on ntfs partitions, it requires ntfsprogs, which aren't in the repos. Slackware 13.37 package should work ok, untested though so YMMV. It is not supported to invoke gparted for working on the partition you have booted off, and should give you a kernel error.

Finally got around to testing on my P4 with Intel 865 graphics. Boots to a black desktop requiring a hard poweroff.
Trying "pfix=ram i915-modeset=0" now......... no improvement.
Trying pfix=ram,nox ..........chose the "vesa" driver and 1024x768 and got 640x480 but at least it's a desktop.No really usable but a desktop....

Was able to reach a desktop on the 3 laptops using cd
boot and pfix=nox-vesa.
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Looking good, You Have already corrected the background setting problem. The only other problem that I've noted is when using PPM, clicking on "Examine dependencies" closes the dialogue box without showing the dependencies so a program with dependencies cannot be installed using the PPM.

Thanks to your fine nouveau-unload, the NVIDIA driver was also easily installed.

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Got a working 5.3.5alpha by using the grub4dos edit facility to temporarily add nox to the boot line - and then selecting the vesa driver.

Found that I am unable to blacklist a module - see attached where b43 is both blacklisted and loaded simultaneously.....

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Thanks peebee for persisting.

I wonder if it's really loaded? I did have a similar issue with nouveau being reported as loaded but I knew it wasn't (with lsmod). The nvidia driver still installed fine, if nouveau is loaded it can't install.

Can you please zip (or gzip) your /etc/rc.d/MOSULESCONFIG file to make sure it made the skip list, or just post the 'skiplist' variable.

pemasu's version of Bibletime here works, but only from a prompt, it will not work using the bibletime.desktop file, the menu, or clicking on /usr/bin/bibletime. It does execute from a prompt with the following error message.

# bibletime
bibletime: /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libsword-1.6.2.so)
#

It would be great to have it in your puppy slacko repository that shows up in the PPM if it can work from the menu.

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